EDUCATION
Ph.D. Southern Methodist University, English (2018)
M.A. King’s College London, English (2012)
B.A. University of Georgia, English (2010)
B.S.Ed. University of Georgia, English Secondary Education (2010)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
Lecturer, Clemson University, Clemson, SC (Present)
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Auburn University, Auburn, AL (2018-2021)
PUBLICATIONS & REVIEWS
BOOK:
Preacher-Poets: Sermons and Gender in Early Modern English Literature (in progress)
ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS:
“John Donne’s Scientific Observation of the Soul”
College Literature (forthcoming in 2022)
“Closet Catholicism, Private Entertainments, and Shakespeare in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire”
in Reconceptualizing Renaissance Performance: Beyond the Public Stage (forthcoming in 2022)
“The Economics of Salvation in Early Modern Devotional Poetry,”
in Religion in the Early Modern British Marketplace (forthcoming with Routledge in 2022)
“Queen Anne’s Body in Stuart Court Sermons”
Ben Jonson Journal 28.2 (2021)
“Video Responses as Sustained Analyses of Literary Texts”
Sixteenth Century Journal 51.51 (2020)
“The ‘Glorie, Might, & Maiestie’ of Early Modern Sermons”
Literature and Theology 28.1, Oxford University Press (2013)
REVIEWS & NOTES:
Review of Spoken Word and Social Practice: Orality in Europe (1400-1700)
Sixteenth Century Journal 48.2 (2017)
Note: “Corrections regarding William Loe’s ‘The King’s Sword’”
Oxford Journal: Notes and Queries 59.1
PRESENTATIONS
“Sermons and Shakespeare: Spoken and Written Authorities in Much Ado About Nothing”
Southeastern Renaissance Conference, Durham, Oct. 15-16 2021
“Close Reading and Active Learning with Lyric Poetry”
SCSC, St. Louis, Oct. 17-20 2019
“Knowing the Soul in John Bunyan’s Plain Style Allegory”
English Hour, Auburn University, Feb. 13 2019
“The Work of Writing in Early Modern Devotional Poetry”
RSA, Toronto, Mar. 17-19 2019
“Knowing God, Knowing Self: Protestant Penance in Spenser’s Faerie Queene”
International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 10-13 2018
“Closet Catholicism and Smokescreen Shakespeare at Gowthwaite Place”
RSA, New Orleans, Mar. 22-24 2018
“The ‘Divine Service’ of Astronomy: Cotton Mather’s Almanac”
MLA, Philadelphia, Jan. 5-8 2017
“Feral Speech in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene”
SCSC, Bruges, Aug. 18-21 2016
“Erasing the Self in George Herbert’s Poetry”
MLA, Austin, Jan. 7-10 2016
“Nipping Paradise in the Bud: Milton’s Eve in ‘Upon Appleton House’”
SCMLA, Austin, Oct. 18-22 2014
“Man of Faith, Man of Science: Cotton Mather’s Boston Ephemeris”
SCMLA, New Orleans, Oct. 3-5 2013
AWARDS AND HONORS
Hughes Dissertation Fellowship (Fall 2017-Spring 2018)
MLA Graduate Student Travel Grant (January 2016)
SMU Organization of Research and Graduate Studies Travel Grant (Summer 2016)
SMU Student Senate Travel Grant (Summer 2016)
Library and Information Science Scholarship (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Auburn University:
British Literature to 1789 Online Course
Summer 2020, Fall 2020 (3 sections total)
British Literature to 1789
Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020 (6 sections total)
Composition I, First-Year Writing Online Course
Fall 2020 (1 section total)
Composition I, First-Year Writing
Fall 2018, Spring 2010 (3 sections total)
Composition II, Academic Writing
Fall 2019, Spring 2020 (3 sections total)
Instructor, Southern Methodist University (2013-2017):
Introduction to Fiction, “Myth and Legend”
Spring 2017 (1 section total)
Introduction to Literature, “Page and Stage”
Fall 2016 (1 section total)
Composition II, Research Writing, “Ways of Seeing”
Spring 2013 (1 section total)
Composition I, First-Year Writing
Fall 2012, Fall 2015 (2 sections total)
Co-Instructor, Southern Methodist University:
British Literature Survey, “Power, Passion, and Protest”
Spring 2016 (1 section total)
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Course (Re)Design Seminar
Biggio Center, Auburn University, Summer 2020
Best Practices and Technology Skills for Teaching Online Workshop
College of Liberal Arts Auburn University, Summer 2019
Supporting Non-Native English Speakers in the University Classroom Workshop
College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University, Spring 2019
Day of Digital Learning
Renaissance Society of America, University of Toronto, March 2019
Learning to Teach Online Web Course
Biggio Center, Auburn University, Fall 2018-Summer 2019
ARCHIVAL AND DIGITAL WORK
Dallas, TX: Digitized catalog system for private collection of over 600 rare books (Summer 2014)
University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book Library Internship; finding aids created: De Renne family papers and Elizabeth Ford papers (Summer 2012)
Folger Shakespeare Library Internship; finding aids created: Letters to Sarah Siddons from various recipients and Letters of Charles Kean (Fall 2011)
British Library Internship; prepared new acquisitions; curated Winston Churchill’s letters for display in permanent gallery (Summer 2011)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE
Panel organizer, “Suspicious Salvation in Early Modern England”
MLA, Austin, Jan. 7-10 2016
Panel presider, “Bibliography and Textual Criticism,”
SCMLA, Dallas, Nov. 3-5 2016
President of English Graduate Organization
Southern Methodist University, Fall 2014-Spring 2015
Vice President, SMU English Graduate Organization
Southern Methodist University, Fall 2013-Spring 2014
Conference Volunteer
SLSA, Dallas, Oct. 9-12 2014
Co-Editor, S/WORD, literary journal
2011-Present
Student Athlete Academic Mentor
University of Georgia, Summer 2019
Chelsea R. McKelvey 